Fixing skintones

[miamicanes]

I've noticed a lot of situations when someone simultaneously has skin tones that are too magenta in some places, and too yellow in others. Supersaturated in some areas, slightly undersaturated in others. I'm kind of at a loss as to how this is supposed to be fixed, because anything I try to do globally (adjusting tint, adjusting color) makes one part a little better, but most of it a lot worse. I suspect this is a fairly common problem with VHS captures... is there any (partial) solution?

I did notice that the colors are just as bad when viewed directly from the tape itself. God, it's amazing how low everyone's expectations of things like color fidelity were back in the VHS era... :eek:

[rfmmars]

There is a VD plugin "Color Mill 2.11" that has a setting "NOT REAL" in the tint setup. Moving the tint slider down some will tend to move the tint to a more peechy look plus some level stableation.

In most diffecult footage, I use

RGBeq
colormill
RGBeq

Working back and forth you can get a fairly good global correction. Best to use VDjobs and do each section separately.

Go to "fdumps" site to get

Colormil 2.11
RGBeq 2.11

Richad